Food
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What did people eat in the parish in the past?
Have you got favourite recipes from your family?
Do you have any research on Highland foods / cooking you could share?
Meat
- Beef
- Sheep
- Lamb - early days of sheep it was the wool that was important, high percentage of flock were wethers, then later the lamb was to feed others so sold, not eaten locally
- Mutton Ham
- Pork
- Game
Fish
- fishermen Selma
- herring fleets - Bonawe
- salmon fishing - Awe
- Fish traps An Sailean / Creran
Vegetables
What did people grow
- Kale
- Potatoes
Foraged / Wild food
